2011–12 ISU Speed Skating World Cup – World Cup 1

The first competition weekend of the 2011–12 ISU Speed Skating World Cup was held in the Uralskaya Molniya in Chelyabinsk, Russia, from Friday, 18 November, until Sunday, 20 November 2011.

Schedule of events

The schedule of the event is below:

Date	Time	Events
18 November	15:00 YEKT	500 m women 500 m men 3000 m women 1500 m men
19 November	15:00 YEKT	500 m women 500 m men 1500 m women 5000 m men
20 November	15:00 YEKT	1000 m women 1000 m men Team pursuit women Team pursuit men

Medal summary

Men's events

Event	Race #	Gold	Time	Silver	Time	Bronze	Time	Report
500 m	1	Pekka Koskela Finland	35.00	Jan Smeekens Netherlands	35.01	Yūya Oikawa Japan	35.07	[1]
	2	Joji Kato Japan	34.92	Mo Tae-bum South Korea	35.01	Yūya Oikawa Japan	35.14	[2]
1000 m		Stefan Groothuis Netherlands	1:08.49	Kjeld Nuis Netherlands	1:08.56	Denny Morrison Canada	1:09.26	[3]
1500 m		Stefan Groothuis Netherlands	1:45.70	Shani Davis United States	1:46.27	Ivan Skobrev Russia	1:46.47	[4]
5000 m		Jorrit Bergsma Netherlands	6:18.74	Sven Kramer Netherlands	6:20.60	Bob de Jong Netherlands	6:21.96	[5]
Team pursuit		Netherlands Sven Kramer Jan Blokhuijsen Wouter olde Heuvel	3:41.25	United States Shani Davis Jonathan Kuck Brian Hansen	3:44.52	Germany Patrick Beckert Marco Weber Alexej Baumgartner	3:45.29	[6]

Women's events

Event	Race #	Gold	Time	Silver	Time	Bronze	Time	Report
500 m	1	Yu Jing China	37.81	Maki Tsuji Japan Thijsje Oenema Netherlands	38.22			[7]
	2	Yu Jing China	37.65	Lee Sang-hwa South Korea	38.09	Jenny Wolf Germany	38.22	[8]
1000 m		Christine Nesbitt Canada	1:15.97	Margot Boer Netherlands	1:16.52	Marrit Leenstra Netherlands	1:16.77	[9]
1500 m		Ireen Wüst Netherlands	1:57.02	Christine Nesbitt Canada	1:57.44	Marrit Leenstra Netherlands	1:58.27	[10]
3000 m		Martina Sáblíková Czech Republic	4:06.54	Ireen Wüst Netherlands	4:07.16	Claudia Pechstein Germany	4:07.81	[11]
Team pursuit		Canada Brittany Schussler Cindy Klassen Christine Nesbitt	3:02.07	Netherlands Ireen Wüst Diane Valkenburg Marrit Leenstra	3:02.72	Russia Yuliya Skokova Yekaterina Lobysheva Yekaterina Shikhova	3:03.37	[12]